Most people would rest easier in the knowledge that these vital basic needs were met universally through competently run, well-regulated government agencies, solidly backed by taxes.
"It is a vital, basic element of administration," said Christopher Demers, an adviser for the Agency for International Development in Kandahar.
The things they need are vital, basic goods, of which the rich consume little more than the poor; Bill Gates does not eat 1,000 times as much breakfast cereal as the valet who parks his car.
On a vital, basic level, our decisions and actions will determine whether the Anthropocene will be an age in which human ingenuity and responsibility will allow 10 billion people to have access to modern forms of energy without compromising the vital life support systems of our planet.
We focus on self-renewal, proliferation, migration, and membrane flexibility as vital, basic functions that a stem cell population requires in order to participate in more complex processes, particularly proper vascular repair.
Even for those children whose parents are alive and able to provide, high poverty rates mean many are excluded from vital basic services such as healthcare, education and improved water and sanitation.
